Yuya AKITA, Ph.D.

Professor
Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University

Faculty of Law and Faculty of Economics East Building, Kyoto University,
Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, JAPAN
E-mail: akitaecon.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Last Update: April 1, 2021

Biography

2000: Received B.E. in Information Science, from Kyoto University 2002: Received Master of Informatics Degree, from Kyoto University 2005: Received Ph.D. in Informatics, from Kyoto University Appointed an Assistant Professor at Kyoto University 2015: Appointed a Senior Lecturer at Kyoto University 2017: Appointed an Associate Professor at Kyoto University 2021: Appointed a Professor at Kyoto University

 

Research

Research Interests

Automatic speech recognition (ASR), spoken language processing (SLP), captioning, indexing and archiving for meetings, discussions and lectures

Publications in English (written mainly by myself)

Language Model Adaptation for Academic Lectures using Character Recognition Result of Presentation Slides Yuya Akita, Yizheng Tong and Tatsuya Kawahara IEEE Int'l Conf. Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Brisbane, Australia, April 2015 Automatic Transcription of Lecture Speech using Language Model Based on Speaking-style Transformation of Proceeding Texts Yuya Akita, Makoto Watanabe and Tatsuya Kawahara 13th Annual Conference of ISCA (Interspeech) Portland, OR, USA, September 2012 Automatic Comma Insertion of Lecture Transcripts Based on Multiple Annotations Yuya Akita and Tatsuya Kawahara 12th Annual Conference of ISCA (Interspeech) Florence, Italy, August 2011 Semi-automated Update of Automatic Transcription System for the Japanese National Congress Yuya Akita, Masato Mimura, Graham Neubig and Tatsuya Kawahara 11th Annual Conference of ISCA (Interspeech) Makuhari, Chiba, Japan, September 2010 Statistical Transformation of Language and Pronunciation Models for Spontaneous Speech Recognition Yuya Akita and Tatsuya Kawahara IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech & Language Process. Vol.18, No.6, pp.1539-1549, 2010 Automatic Transcription System for Meetings of the Japanese National Congress Yuya Akita, Masato Mimura and Tatsuya Kawahara 10th Annual Conference of ISCA (Interspeech) Brighton, U.K., September 2009 PLSA-based Topic Detection in Meetings for Adaptation of Lexicon and Language Model Yuya Akita, Yusuke Nemoto and Tatsuya Kawahara 8th Annual Conference of ISCA (Interspeech) Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007 Topic-independent Speaking-style Transformation of Language Model for Spontaneous Speech Recognition Yuya Akita and Tatsuya Kawahara IEEE Int'l Conf. Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A., April 2007 Sentence Boundary Detection of Spontaneous Japanese using Statistical Language Model and Support Vector Machines Yuya Akita, Masahiro Saikou, Hiroaki Nanjo and Tatsuya Kawahara ISCA 9th Int'l Conf. on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP) Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A., September 2006 Automatic Transcription of Meetings using Topic-oriented Language Model Adaptation Yuya Akita, Carlos Troncoso and Tatsuya Kawahara The 9th Western Pacific Acoustics Conference (WESPAC IX) Seoul, Korea, June 2006 (invited) Efficient Estimation of Language Model Statistics of Spontaneous Speech via Statistical Transformation Model Yuya Akita and Tatsuya Kawahara IEEE Int'l Conf. Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Toulouse, France, May 2006 Generalized Statistical Modeling of Pronunciation Variations using Variable-length Phone Context Yuya Akita and Tatsuya Kawahara IEEE Int'l Conf. Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A., March 2005 Language Model Adaptation based on PLSA of Topics and Speakers for Automatic Transcription of Panel Discussions Yuya Akita and Tatsuya Kawahara IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems Vol. E88-D, No. 3, pp. 439-445, 2005 Language Model Adaptation based on PLSA of Topics and Speakers Yuya Akita and Tatsuya Kawahara ISCA 8th Int'l Conf. on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP) Jeju, Korea, October 2004 Automatic Audio Archiving System for Panel Discussions Yuya Akita, Masahiro Hasegawa and Tatsuya Kawahara IEEE Int'l Conf. Multimedia and Expo (ICME) Taipei, Taiwan, June 2004 Unsupervised Speaker Indexing using Anchor Models and AutomaticTranscription of Discussions Yuya Akita and Tatsuya Kawahara ISCA 8th European Conf. Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech) Geneva, Switzerland, September 2003 Automatic Transcription of Discussions using Unsupervised Speaker Indexing Yuya Akita, Masafumi Nishida and Tatsuya Kawahara ISCA & IEEE Workshop on Spontaneous Speech Processing and Recognition (SSPR) Tokyo, Japan, April 2003